How to write a code that is more efficient?

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Tell us what’s happening:
I was trying to solve challenge “Use Recursion to Create a Range of Numbers” which I did solve, but when I looked at my solution and the solutions given in the on help page I found that I am writing some seriously complicated and inefficient code(which I even find hard to explain). How can improve that?

Your code so far


function rangeOfNumbers(startNum, endNum) {
if(startNum === endNum) {
  const numbers = [];
  numbers.unshift(startNum);
  return numbers;
}else {
  const numbers = rangeOfNumbers(startNum + 1, endNum);
  numbers.unshift(startNum);
  return numbers;
}
};

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Challenge: Use Recursion to Create a Range of Numbers

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It is worth keeping in mind that visually compact code is not always the most efficient code. In general, recursion will be slower than a loop. It’s just sometimes the easiest way to solve certain problems (though any recursion problem can be done with a loop and vice versa).